Toy



W. A. CAMP.

TOY.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.25. I919.

Patented Apr. 11, 1922.

UNITED STATES ALLER CAMP, OF HARIFORD, CONNECTICUI.

TOY.

Specication of Letcers Patent.

Patented Apr. 11, 1922.

Application led November 25, 1919. Scrial No. 340,614.

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Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. CAMP, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford, State of .Connecticut, have invented certain new and down a series of vertically spaced horizom tally disposed bars.

In the acconipanying drawings Fig. 1 is an elevational view of the toy.

Fig. 2 is a.vertical sectional view through the ladder thereof.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the tumbling block, and

Fig; 4 is aview of a blank from which the block may be formed.

In these drawings; 10 designates horizontal bars which, in the present illustrative disclosure of the invention, form the rungs of a ladder A maintained perpendicularly in any suitable manner as by.means of the bases shown. The bars or rungs 10 are pref erably rectangular in cross section being of considerably greater height than Width.

The tumbling block 11, which may represent a figure or manikin of any kind and herein shown as bearing the representation of a clown, has at each end a transverse V- shaped groove 12, a circular hole 13 spaced from the groove 12 and a narrow slot or channel 14 leading from the apex of the groove to the hole; ChanneIs 14 are oi slightly greater width than that of the rungs 10 but less than the heigbt thereof.

It is of course evident that tumbfling blocks may Le solid and provided at each end with a groove, a channel and a hole arranged as described, but because of economy in manufacture, these blocks are by preference formed from sheet metal. a blank of the configuration shown in Fig. 4 being stam ed from the metal and then bent along the otted lines of this figure into rectangular sha e as shown in Fig. 3.

In Fig. 2 of the drawings, the block shown in full Iines is swinging doWnwardly about one of the upper rangs of the ladder; the first block*shoWn in dotted lines as just falling from that 1ung onto the next succeeding rung; and the second block shown in dotted lines is just dropping from a rung about which the block has swung. It will readily be understood that in operation the block is rnoved vertically down until the upper rung is positioned within the hole in the lower end of the block and the block is then released whereupon it will swing downwardly until it is vertically below the rung about which it has swung and in this position the channel 14 and the rung 10 are in alinement so that the block may fall from that rung and onto the next succeeding rung about which it will swing until it is vertioally beneath the same when it will drop on to the next rung and so on. As the width of the channels is slightly greater than that of the bars or rungs 10 it necessarily follows that the block must fall substantially on a perpendicular lime from one rung to another. The inclined faces of the transverse grooves 12 are of assistance in directing the block as it drops onto the rangs.

It is to be understood that the present disclosure of the invention is by way of illustration and not restrictive thereof, it being obvious that the invention is susceptible of embodiment in various forms all coining within the scope of the following claimsf I daim as my invention:

1. In a toy. a series of vertically spaced horizontally disposed bars, and a block having adjacent each end a transverse hole and a slot leading from each hole to the respective ends of the block.

2. In a toy, a series of vertically spaced horizontally disposed bars, and ablock having a transverse hole adjacent each end and a narrow channel leading from each hole to the respective ends of the block.

3. In a toy, a series of vertically spaced horizontally disposed bars of greater height than width, and a block having a transverse hole adjacent each end.and a channel leading from each hole to the respective ends of the block, said channels .being in width less than the height but greaterthan the width of said bars.

4. In a toy, a series of vertically spaced horizontally disposed bars, and a blockhaving at each end a transverse V-shaped groove, a hole spaced from each groove, and a channel between the apex of each groove and the hole adjacent therto.

5. In a toy, a vertical ladder having rungs of greater height than width, and a block representing a figure and having at each end a transverse Vhaped groove, a hole spaced from each groove and a slot connecting the groove and hole at each end of the block, the width of each slot being less than the height of the rungs but slightly greater than the width thereof. V

6. A hollow tumbling blockformed from a blank of sheet metal, and having a Pair 10 of opposite walls each provided at each end with a groove, a hole spaced therefrom and a channel between the groove and hole.

7. In a toy, a series of bars spaced one abqve the other and a block including means at each end receiving said bars on dropping thereonto and released from said bars when in position beneath the same whereby said block Will tumble down said bars in a series of partial revolutions.

WILLIAM ALLEN' CAMP. 

